(The Center Square) – A coalition of 17 Democratic attorneys general is opposing a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would reduce wages for temporary foreign farmworkers.

The attorneys general, who include Rob Bonta of California, Aaron Ford of Nevada and Phil Weiser of Colorado, wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer to oppose the reduction in the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for workers in the H-2A program.

H-2A allows farmers to bring nonimmigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform seasonal or temporary work when there aren’t enough domestic workers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor .

The attorneys general say the department is reducing wages through several ways: creating a new rate methodology that ignores agricultural data, starting a two-

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